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Merry Christmas! The most memorable Christmas tune for me, being a child of the eighties, was Captain Sensible’s “One Christmas Catalogue”. I remember going around the house and mumbling to myself “To Christmas, to Christmas” (part of the song lyrics). I was never able to get that song on vinyl because it used to be […]

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Ever have one of those days that you feel has been just a complete waste of time? Let me put it this way – I just don’t think that developing a specific functionality is feasible when the specs for it haven’t even been completely thought of. Halfway into the software dev cycle is NOT when […]

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Some pictures of our house –        More over here

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Funny banter between myself and Zoe while shopping for shoes at Target. Zoe was trying on a pair of hideous Pikachu (from the Pokemon cartoon) slippers. Me: Zoe, those are ugly. Zoe: No they’re not… they’re yellow. At that point, I thought that there was no sense in arguing that….

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It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas 17 days, 3 hours and 19 minutes – that’s how long it’s been since I last blogged. I’ve been uninspired lately. Too much work. I’ve been feeling a bit stressed lately with my office work – deadlines are creeping up, but some of the things that you […]

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Zoe’s has a really good sense of humor – the other day she was going around the house saying things like “Go up to your room!” and “No ice cream!”. These are the empty threats that we tell her whenever she doesn’t eat her dinner, or does something bad. She would say these phrases, and […]

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Feeling really awful today… I’ve got one of the most horrible headaches you can imagine. Work, of course, isn’t making it any better. At least I’m ahead of schedule on most of my development stuff so I can afford to relax a bit… of course I wish that it could translate to some days off. […]

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Locked Up Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb – this must be what people around us were saying yesterday when I accidentally locked Zoe inside my car with the engine running in a gas station. Here’s the story: Yesterday, after picking up Zoe from daycare, I decided to fill up my car with gas. Now when I […]

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Today is the day that I get to buy the two DVD releases I’ve been waiting quite a while for – Lord Of The Rings:Fellowship Of The Ring (Director’s Cut) and Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones. I admit it – I am a DVD-aholic (with over 200 DVDs at last count to […]

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I can’t get this song out of my head today – for some reason the great saxophone melody just keeps repeating and repeating in my head…. Your Latest Trick By The Dire Straits From: Brothers In Arms Play the song: Lyrics: All the late night bargains have been struck Between the satin beaus and their […]

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